Outside the central city lay many independent residential communities.
These communities were far less bustling than the central city. Though they all had electricity, their facilities were generally quite basic.
Even so, these communities were home to no small number of people.
The smallest had several hundred residents, while the largest held several thousand, reaching the scale of a small town.
Some people liked the bustle of big cities; others preferred the relative peace of smaller communities.
Li Su's parents had been settled here.
After all, when his parents had awakened, they had both been ordinary people through and through. Even with proper protection, accidents could still happen.
Better to hide modestly in the wild than expose themselves beneath the spotlight.
The arrangements had clearly been made with great care. A formation from the Interception Sect had been planted near the community where his parents lived. Other than the residents, outsiders would unconsciously overlook the place. That was why his parents had never been found. Faced with this formation, only those above the Immortal Realm might possibly notice something amiss.
By the time he brought Lü Qian home, it was just afternoon.
The community here had not been affected. The instant his anger had flared, Li Su had isolated this area, so everyone in the community was still busy with their own affairs.
For example, his mother was out walking the cat.
The old lady's cultivation was quite impressive now. She had actually reached the great perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage, only a single step away from the Golden Core.
Though they had not seen each other in nearly twenty years, she had grown ever younger and more beautiful. Her skin, her figure—she could not be called a maiden of sixteen, but at most she looked twenty-three or twenty-four,